If One Fine Spring Day was standard introduction to the concept of love, April Snow is a more advanced, in-depth course on the same emotion. This film asks questions such as whether a man and woman who find out their spouses have been in an affair with each other can fall in love, and whether their love is ‘legitimate’ or yet another affair. April Snow is very clearly different from director Hur Jinho’s previous film, Christmas in August (1998) and One Fine Spring Day. Instead of his previous films which densely tied together normal and everyday moments with a contemplative eye, April Snow portrays the two people’s emotions in an extremely straightforward, and even in a slightly rough way. The frankly expressed emotions and relatively explicit love scenes express the inner worlds of the main characters, In-su and Seo-young, who have no choice when pushed by the strong tides of fate to find each other in a relationship. Perhaps because of this premise, the Korean public did not receive this film very well, but it was a smash hit in Japan thanks to Bae Yong-joon. As a turning point in his directing style, April Snow could be said to be the beginning of “Hur Jinho 2.0”. (MOON Seok)